Quake of 5.2 magnitude hits southeastern Iran, no deaths reported: TV

ANKARA (Reuters) - An earthquake of magnitude 5.2 rocked Iran's southeastern province of Kerman on Thursday but there were no initial reports of deaths, state TV said, only a day after a deadly temblor near the capital Tehran.

Rescue teams were dispatched to the town of Kouhbanan, the epicenter of the latest quake, it said.

On Wednesday night, a quake of magnitude 5.2 struck a town near the capital Tehran, killing two people and injuring 117.

Criss-crossed by several major geological fault lines, Iran is one of the world's most quake-prone countries. In 2003, a magnitude 6.6 quake in Kerman province killed 31,000 people and flattened the ancient city of Bam.